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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (44)	4/26/2003 5:02:38 PM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 1267

PBS SPECIAL ON DIAMONDS, SIERRA LEONE, ETC: "Few places in the world have seen such brutal carnage in recent years as Sierra Leone, where tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and mutilated in a decade-long civil war. The madness in Sierra Leone reached ghastly proportions in January 1999, during a three-week rebel siege of the capital city, Freetown. More than 4,000 people were slaughtered as rebel forces took control of the city. Women were randomly raped and thousands of children were...." (more at): pbs.org Namaste! Jim

To: epicure who wrote (44)	4/27/2003 4:16:30 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1267

Blood diamonds have been financing and causing atrocities in Africa for a few decades now. If the illicit trade didn't threaten the DeBeers cartel, the laws you see now probably never would have happened. "Blood oil" financed much of the civil war in Angola for decades (diamonds financed part of it too). And you and I were paying the tab at our local Gulf and Mobil and Exxon stations. It's a bad confluence of greedy international companies and corrupt, ruthless leaders (in government and in the bush) that make this whole sick circle go around. It won't stop until one or both are gone. So it goes on and on and on and on....